Method of making pressed glassware.



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METHOD oF MAKINGPRESSED GLASSWARE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 762,925, dated June 21, y1904.

' Application med Mmh 21,1903. somma-18,871. en model.)

To al?, whom t may concern: y

Bc it known that I, O'rls A. MYGATT, a citizen of the United States, residing Iat New York, in the colnty. of New York and State of N cw York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Pressed Glassware, of which the following is a specification..

` This invention relates to a methdd of-p'roducing pressed glass whereby the outer and inner surfaces of the glass may be smooth, while the glass will show ornamentation in its body, such as is generally shown either depressed or in relief on its surface.

The object-of the invention is to producen great variety of useful and ornamental glass ware largely bythe process of pressing,which is a very cheap process, but which articles are not subject to accumulate dust, as are glass articles with uneven surfaces, nor arethe ornamental parts soliable to chip and breakas are glass articles having projections;V The easily washed and can bemadcornamental in colors as well as 1n form.

y '.lhc invention consists 1n certain steps used p in the production of'glass articles and in articles so produced.

Much of the operation and the mechanism used is known to experts in this art. I will describe such additional steps and mechanisms as seem to be involved in the present invention. u

Figure 1 represents a plunger, as common in molding glass. Fig. 2 represents a sectional mold with an article formed therein, shown in scction,`the mold having been separated to release the article. Fig. 3 represents' a section of an article of thin glass slightly larger than the article of Fig. 2 and of generally similar contour, but'without ornamentation. Such articles may be either' pressed' or blown in amold in manner welhknown in this art. Fig. 4 isa sectional View of` the articles of Figs. 2 -and 3 joined 'togetherand nthe joining edges closed down by tools v`indicated in the ligure. l

Let us suppose A to represent a plunger, as

' common in glass-molding presses, and B B ,C the separable parts of a `glass1uold, the

parts B B being ornalnented. Such molds are` made in almost all forms `end in almost any number vof parts, and the molds are prepared with depressions or projections of numerous varieties, as the vast numberof different orproof. Let-us suppose the article E tohave been pressed from glass withornamental projections ce con its outer surface, either in high or low relief, or even in intaglio. At the same time another article D is formed in a mold, preferably as thin as possible and resembling in contour the article E, but slightly molds in which thearticle Dis formed, as such may be practically a facsimile of mold B namental deslgns in pressed glassware give larger, Itis deemed unnecessary to illustrate minus the ornamentation, or the moldy may be of usual character in which an article is blown.

The character of the mold is determined by I the article to be produced, Immediately after thearticlesl) and E are formed and whileY still plastic they article E is placed inside of the article l), and as the two are'of'fthe same general contour the one ineloses the other` f presses the edgesof the two articles together. As the plastieglass is still of a wax-like conneatly. -Then with a stick ortool F or in other convenient manner the workman comsistency, the glass of the two articles will How together under the pressure of the tool, thus sealin g the joints permanently. The workman will 'soon learn to distinguish 'the consistency of the glass under which it can be worked to best advantage. It is not desirable that one article or vessel be placed inside the other until the ornamentation on the ornan'ientedl articlcshall have set so far that it will .not

becomedistorted bythe application of the other molded part. A blowpipe may-be used or hot plastic glass may be used to close the j'oint. Tl/Ie'ornamentation on the molded. article maybe specia -ly planned for the purpose of inclusion'ibetween two surfaces, and certain parts in high relief will serve as bearers to hold the covering vessel out of contact with most ofthe ornamental .parts on the covered vessel, the bearers themselves becoming welded, as it were, between the two parts which go to make up the-.finished article. Thus in the article illustrated` certain figures-@for in- 1 stance, stars-may be inhigh relief on the article E. Even it' these coalcsce with the article or layer I) they will still retain their form and appear as ornamental star-shaped outlines, being visible from bothfaces of the completed product through the glass. As

` the air between the two parts or layers l) and E will be largely expelled by the high temperature, a partial vacuum will be likely to result in the intel-sticos between the two parts.y This vacuum is not objectionable', as lthe atmospheric pressure tends to compress the v more plastic ot' the two parts of the article nament before the inclosure of the one part 25.

of the article Within the other.

While Ilhave described the ornamentation as applied to the interior part of the device and the exterior portion as being'smooth, it

parts which is apparent that a reversal of these positions might be made. It is also within thespirit of my invention that ornamentation may exist on both -the proximate surfaces ot' the two go to make up the completed article. i

l. The method of producing articles of glassware which consists in molding a glass article with ornaments project'i ngt'rom one face only, inclosing this article while hot in another heated molded glass article of generally similar contour but having smoothsurfaces, and 1nit' ing the edges of the two parts by a toolingl process.`

2. The method of producinga hollow article from glass,vwhich consists in pressing a body in form of suchlarticle Jfrom hot plastic glass in a mold, so that one :face is smooth and the other face has ornamental projections, pressing another body of similar form but slightly differing in size by molding from hot plastic glass, inclosing one body within the other with the ornamental face between, whileI the glass is hot but after ,its form is set, then uniting the-edges by tooling so that the two bodies become securely attached.

-In testimony whereot- I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

v g OTlS A. MYG-ATT. Witnesses:

I. B. FERGUSON,

W. A. DoREY. 

